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  • Also, If I compare 2 funds, Canara robecco large cap and Nippon large cap. Canara has an 5 year rolling return average of 15.87% while Nippon has 14.71%. But if we compare current 5 years CAGR, lately canara is not performing good. Nippon has 17.85% ...

    10 May 2026
  • 1090 Rahul Kulkarni on Max Pain & PCR Ratio

    Hi Karthik... Very nicely explained Man Pain Theory. While using the sample excel sheet provided by you contains only 17 strikes. Today I was trying with one underlying in option chain data, but the total strikes were 20. I found bit difficult ...

    10 May 2026
  • I compared Rolling returns from the way we calculated here, from mfonline calc and from primeinvestor calc as well. I checked for nippon large cap 5 years rolling return. Few values like avg and max come close by but min has a diff of 5%. Likewise ...

    10 May 2026
  • 117 Badri Verma on Ideas by the lake

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    10 May 2026
  • 755 Karthik Rangappa on The IPO Markets (Part 2)

    Well, your guess is as good as mine :) ...

    10 May 2026

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